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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: edmazing on March 14, 2026, 04:25:12 PM

Title: Aterm -hold v1.00.01
Post by: edmazing on March 14, 2026, 04:25:12 PM

I was trying to open another terminal window to run a script, then pause after execution to allow the user to exit after seeing the status of the commands. Aterm has no -hold option. I tried the most simple thing I could think of

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xterm -e 'sleep 5' as well as

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xterm -e 'ls -a && read -p "Press Anykey..."' and some variations. While

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read -p "Some example text" works in the primary terminal there doesn't seem to be a way I can find to spawn another terminal and have it stay open.

Is there a simple way to do this?
My solution is just to remove aterm.tcz and use xterm.tcz instead.

Title: Re: Aterm -hold v1.00.01
Post by: CNK on March 14, 2026, 05:55:58 PM

Try removing the quotes. It's looking for a command named "sleep 5" instead of running the "sleep" command with "5" as an argument:

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$ aterm -e sleep 5


Title: Re: Aterm -hold v1.00.01
Post by: Rich on March 14, 2026, 08:44:51 PM

Hi edmazing
This seems to work:

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/usr/local/bin/aterm -e sh -c "MyScript.sh; exec sh" &For some reason  aterm  doesn't recognize command line switches
if called without a full path on my TC10 x86 system.

The aterm.tcz extension also includes an xterm link which worked for me:

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xterm -e sh -c "MyScript.sh; exec sh" &

Title: Re: Aterm -hold v1.00.01
Post by: Leee on March 18, 2026, 04:00:12 PM

In a moment of annoyance, I wrote a little wrapper script called htfto (Hold The F*ing Terminal Open that just runs the script and reads a junk variable afterward:

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#!/bin/sh
# htfto - hold the f*ing terminal open                 lem 2026-03-15 14:06
#         start a script in a new terminal window and don't close the
#         window when the script ends.
# ARGS: a script names, with its arguments
#
[ -z "${1}" ] && echo "htfto: ERR - no program given" && exit 10

$*
read junk


Title: Re: Aterm -hold v1.00.01
Post by: Rich on March 28, 2026, 11:44:34 AM

Hi edmazing
Update:

Quote from: Rich on March 14, 2026, 08:44:51 PM

This seems to work:

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/usr/local/bin/aterm -e sh -c "MyScript.sh; exec sh" &For some reason  aterm  doesn't recognize command line switches
if called without a full path on my TC10 x86 system. ...

Turns out the problem was in my  .ashrc  file.

Sometime in the past I added this for some reason:

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alias aterm='aterm &'
Removing it fixed the issue so now this works correctly:

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aterm -e sh -c "MyScript.sh; exec sh" &